Horn of Africa and Beyond

Update: Ethiopian Woman Beaten on Camera “Kills Herself”

I don’t know how to express my sadness; this is heartbreaking! They killed her, they killed this poor woman who just wanted to have a better life for herself and her family, and they say she killed herself! They are her killers: the abusers, the Lebanese government that has yet to implement a law that protects the rights of foreign workers, and the Ethiopian government that does almost nothing to protect Ethiopian citizens–she was beaten in front of the Ethiopian consulate, how worse can it get?! Indifference and silence cannot be the answers.

Members of ESAC are shocked and devastated by this sad news!!! As our chairwoman Ms. Zewditu has urged, all concerned individuals (Ethiopians and non Ethiopians) who live around NYC and beyond please join us to fight this fight against the abuse of domestic workers in the Middle East. It is inhuman to savagely abuse domestic workers and it must be stopped. May Alem Dechassa rest in peace!!!

Tadias Magazine
News Update

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

New York (TADIAS) – The Ethiopian domestic worker that was violently mistreated outside the Ethiopian embassy in Beirut, as shown in a viral video last weekend, has committed suicide, Ethiopia’s Consul General confirmed to local media in Lebanon.

I can’t stop thinking about this woman. How I feel so bad for her family. But I do hope the Ethiopian and Lebanese government would see this as a wake up call. So many of our sisters and mothers are dying over there.

Me, too, Zebiba! Her cry for help is stuck in my mind! Her family members are going to be shattered. And I do hope too that everyone takes this as a wake up call. But unfortunately this may soon be forgotten if there is no mechanism to put pressure!

Dear Judy! Thank you so much for reblogging it! It’s very horrible to see her getting abused and then to hear the news that she committed suicide—I’ve a hard using this expression, for me, she was killed, it’s unfair to even call it suicide.